Top 120 Cate Blanchett Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.”

— Cate Blanchett

52. “I don’t have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You’d be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees – I think a lot of it’s imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?”

— Cate Blanchett

53. “If you over plan New Year’s Eve it’s going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.”

— Cate Blanchett

54. “I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don’t quite know how to get out of it.”

— Cate Blanchett

55. “I think we should all feel lucky and blessed that people are still, in this day and age, getting in their cars with other people and driving to a location and paying money to sit in a theater and watch a play.”

— Cate Blanchett

56. “I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn’t ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.”

— Cate Blanchett

57. “When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.”

— Cate Blanchett

58. “My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.”

— Cate Blanchett

59. “I look at someone’s face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don’t think people look better when they do it; they just look different.”

— Cate Blanchett

60. “Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don’t necessarily judge people who do. I don’t really think it makes people look better; they just look different.”

— Cate Blanchett

61. “The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I’d think, ‘How can you do that?’”

— Cate Blanchett

62. “When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you’re all hearing the same thing. It’s about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it’s not the same thing.”

— Cate Blanchett

63. “You can’t really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.”

— Cate Blanchett

64. “I’m always without sleep. I’ve got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.”

— Cate Blanchett

65. “Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.”

— Cate Blanchett

66. “I often have a few scents depending on if I’m playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps I wouldn’t wear. We’ve all got different moods and ways we want to express ourselves; scent is a very powerful way to let people in to your secret life.”

— Cate Blanchett

67. “I like to put perfume on my pulse points, but I also love the way you can sense it – there is an atmosphere that comes from releasing a scent in to the world – it’s a primal thing. I spray around me, not just on me, and it lingers in the room after I leave.”

— Cate Blanchett

68. “If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness.”

— Cate Blanchett

69. “Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I’m time-poor, which I usually am, that’s the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn’t be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.”

— Cate Blanchett

70. “It’s part of my job. You can’t play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn’t wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent – unless it’s a farce – is that it’s not slapped on.”

— Cate Blanchett

71. “And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.”

— Cate Blanchett

72. “If you know why someone is doing what they’re doing, why they’re behaving the way they are, then that’s your job to reveal that, and often that’s situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it’s your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.”

— Cate Blanchett

73. “The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.”

— Cate Blanchett

74. “The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, ‘At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?’”

— Cate Blanchett

75. “You can’t really achieve anything in three years.”

— Cate Blanchett

76. “Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.”

— Cate Blanchett

77. “I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.”

— Cate Blanchett

78. “I just don’t see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.”

— Cate Blanchett

79. “I think you’re peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.”

— Cate Blanchett

80. “The effect on the geo-cultural political map of Australia made by Gough Whitlam is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in, you get a wealth of Gough’s legacy.”

— Cate Blanchett

81. “That’s why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it’s a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.”

— Cate Blanchett

82. “Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you’ll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They’re less portable.”

— Cate Blanchett

83. “For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.”

— Cate Blanchett

84. “I’m not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, ‘Ok, I wouldn’t mind to try to get here in five years.’”

— Cate Blanchett

85. “I’m not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism. I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.”

— Cate Blanchett

86. “Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.”

— Cate Blanchett

87. “I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser’s I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.”

— Cate Blanchett

88. “The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what’s happening onstage.”

— Cate Blanchett

89. “I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it’s incredibly disappointing.”

— Cate Blanchett

90. “When you’re a performer, of course you want an audience, but it’s very, very different from courting fame.”

— Cate Blanchett

91. “I’m not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn’t do, but I know what works for me.”

— Cate Blanchett

92. “I’m not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.”

— Cate Blanchett

93. “Sometimes I think it’s so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they’re 28?”

— Cate Blanchett

94. “I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.”

— Cate Blanchett

95. “Every single pore – not on the men, but on the women – is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.”

— Cate Blanchett

96. “I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.”

— Cate Blanchett

97. “Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it’s a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.”

— Cate Blanchett

98. “I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.”

— Cate Blanchett

99. “You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they’re zooming in on every pore, which you’ve got to forget about.”

— Cate Blanchett

100. “You can’t be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it’s not a concern of mine.”

— Cate Blanchett